Program Highlights
Find out what's coming up on some of your favorite public radio programs and what specials we're airing this week.
Friday – 9/28/12
7 pm: FROM THE TOP
This week, From the Top comes to you from Weber State University's Austad Auditorium in Ogden, Utah, where you'll hear a talented duo from the Salt Lake City area play Tchaikovsky and the teenage winners of the Discover National Chamber Music Competition in Chicago perform the monumental final movement of the String Quartet No. 9 by Dimitri Shostakovich.
10 pm: JAZZ SHACK
Ralph Sutton once called himself the “last of the whorehouse piano players.” By this he meant that he placed himself squarely in the tradition of James P. Johnson and the other stride pianists working in 1920s Harlem. We’ll begin tonight with some live piano duets Sutton recorded in a Torono jazz club with Dick Hyman. These 1996 tracks will be followed with a 1959 jam with tenor Ben Webster. Also scheduled are 1963 Blue Notes from Blue Mitchell.
Saturday – 9/29/12
7 am: SELECTED SHORTS
"In the Reign of Harad IV" by Steven Millhauser, performed by Leonard Nimoy
"America" by Aimee Bender, performed by Jane Levy
"Rocking Chair" by Abigail Thomas, performed by Kate Burton
12 pm: THE SPLENDID TABLE
This week it's the legendary Jacques Pepin with his book, Essential Pepin: More than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food, we learn how to pack a bento box, talk to Indian chef and TV personality Vikas Khanna, author of Flavors First: An Indian Chef's Culinary Journey, and the Sterns are taking a look at what happens when great road food restaurants multiply.
3 pm: THE MOTH RADIO HOUR
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground, three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco, and a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world. Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.
4 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “Send A Message”
This week people reach out in all kinds of ways to try and get their point across. And the recipients of those messages try to decipher what they mean. Messages in code, over the phone, and from beyond the grave.
6 pm: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Oklahoma singer and songwriter John Fullbright, and vocalist Holly Jones. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, sound effects man Steve Kramer, and Lindsay Marcy, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Sunday – 9/30/12
7 am: ON BEING
We know that the light and smells in places like hospitals and airports can depress us. And that our favorite room in our house helps keep us sane. Science is now demonstrating why physical spaces stress us, make us sick, or help us be well. "The Science of Healing Places" with Esther Sternberg.
11 am: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Oklahoma singer and songwriter John Fullbright, and vocalist Holly Jones. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, sound effects man Steve Kramer, and Lindsay Marcy, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
6 pm: THE MOTH RADIO HOUR
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground, three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco, and a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world. Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.
9 pm: THIS AMERICAN LIFE – “Send A Message”
This week people reach out in all kinds of ways to try and get their point across. And the recipients of those messages try to decipher what they mean. Messages in code, over the phone, and from beyond the grave.
Wednesday – 10/3/12
7 pm: The TED Radio Hour – “Africa: The Next Chapter”
There are many stereotypes about Africa--that it's a place of conflict, of disease, war, and famine. Or that it's a single place at all, rather than a continent of 54 distinct countries. We'll engage with thinkers and do-ers who are constructing new realities for their respective countries, and for the African continent a whole
